Adobe announced late last year that it would introduce a new file format for Premiere Pro called Motion Graphics Templates, which would allow users to create and export modular, customizable templates within both Premiere Pro or After Effects via the Essential Graphics Panel. These Motion Graphics Templates can then be used and customized directly within Premiere Pro, greatly streamlining the process for content creators.

Envato has began sourcing this new file type from across its VideoHive author community, and expects this new range of Premiere Pro files to be available for purchase from April.

According to Envato’s General Manager of Content Adrian Fittolani, the new items will prove quite useful for the thousands of customers who use VideoHive each day. “Just about anything you can do with After Effects you can now make into a more accessible Premiere Pro friendly version,” he said.

“Our existing community of After Effects authors are in an excellent position to use their motion graphic skill sets to produce expanded Premiere Pro offerings, and we’ve already seen some authors beginning to demonstrate how their After Effects items will work in the new environment.”

While working with After Effects project files from within Premiere Pro has been previously possible, the workflow was limited and required expert knowledge of both software applications.

The Essentials Graphics Panel and Motion Graphics Templates now make it much easier to add and customize powerful and dynamic animations and video effects within Premiere Pro projects, without needing to be an expert motion graphics designer.

“What we will see now is a greater range of more user-friendly After Effects templates thanks to the Essential Graphics Panel, but also new Motion Graphics Templates and Premiere Pro project files,” said Fittolani. “All of which will provide even more options to our creative community of video editors who are seeking best-practice ways to complete their projects on-time and on-trend.”

Now in its 55th year, the Austrade and ACCI-presented awards honour some of Australia’s most successful exporters across a range of industries.

Entrants in the creative industries category were acknowledged for their outstanding international success across everything from music and performing arts, film, TV and radio, to software, interactive content, publishing, design and the visual arts.

Acting CEO Ben Chan accepted the award on behalf of Envato from the Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, the Honourable Steven Ciobo MP.

Speaking after the ceremony, Mr Chan said Envato was very proud to again be recognised for its export success.

“We’ve been an international company since day one - our first sale on our original ActiveDen marketplace was to an overseas buyer, and our focus on exporting has only increased since then.”

“We’re in awe of the global creative community that buy and sell items across all of our businesses. This award is as much a recognition of their hard work and inspiration as it is our global staffing cohort.”

“We’re approaching the $600 million milestone in total revenue earned by our very talented authors who create and sell everything from WordPress themes and plugins to stock photos, fonts, graphic templates and more. Every month we see more of our authors earning a living doing what they love, and that is a very humbling - and proud - moment for us as a company.”

“This award yet again underscores one of our key values - that when the community succeeds, we succeed.”

Envato has previously received recognition at the Australian Export Awards, having been named Australia's Exporter of the Year in 2016.

To commence at 1400 (AEDT), the sale includes some of the best-selling items for 2017 and includes WordPress themes, Adobe Photoshop actions, logos, stock music, motion graphics and more.

All items are drawn from a diverse range of authors and will enable customers to complete a host of creative projects; from movie trailers to corporate videos, Powerpoint presentations to posters and everything in between.

It will officially go down as the biggest sale in Envato’s history to date, said Acting General Manager Adam Noonan.

“We’ve worked with our amazing community of authors all around the world to identify and promote items that we know are on-trend, flexible in their use across multiple types of creative projects and ultimately, will give our customers the most value this Cyber Monday,” he said.

“We’re excited that this sale provides Envato with another opportunity to raise the profile of our global author community and showcase the quality and breadth of items on offer.”

The world’s largest seller of WordPress themes has added over 300 premium WordPress themes and plugins to Envato Elements, affirming its position as a must-have subscription for designers, web developers and digital creatives worldwide.

Envato launches unlimited downloads of WordPress themes and plugins The world’s largest seller of WordPress themes has added over 300 premium themes and plugins to Envato Elements.

Melbourne, Australia - November 14, 2017 - Envato Elements now includes unlimited downloads of over 300 premium WordPress themes and plugins, affirming its position as a must-have subscription for designers, web developers and digital creatives worldwide.

Launched in 2016 with fonts, templates, graphics and icons, Envato Elements has steadily increased its offerings over the past year to include photos and 3D items. The addition of WordPress themes and plugins brings the total number of items available to more than 400,000 - all of which annual subscribers have unlimited access to.

Envato has been a pioneer of WordPress themes with over seven million themes sold on ThemeForest - the world’s largest WordPress marketplace. The initial 200+ themes selected for inclusion on Envato Elements range from multipurpose to niche, and all are intelligently designed, functional and fully responsive. Users can further enhance their site’s functionality with over 100 clever plugins enabling enhanced SEO, social sharing, bookings and more.

Our aim for Envato Elements has been to create the essential subscription service for digital creatives, while providing additional earning opportunities for our global community of contributors. Given the size of the market, and the Envato community’s strength within WordPress, we believe Envato Elements is in an excellent position to deliver on our aim.

Ben Chan, Acting CEO

Envato Elements subscribers are drawn to the product with the knowledge that each contributor is vetted, so all items are on trend and of the highest quality, and the WordPress additions are no different.

Finding the right theme or plugin can be difficult in the WordPress world, unless you know what you’re looking for. Envato Elements’ curated collection is a great way to explore what’s out there for WordPress users and discover new designs and functionality to take your website to the next level.

James Giroux, Author Engagement Lead

The arrival of WordPress items to Envato Elements also marks the ability for users to choose an annual subscription, as well as the current cancel-any-time monthly option. Only annual subscribers will receive access to WordPress items. Both options have their sign-up pricing locked in for the lifetime of the subscription.

For many customers who need a single or specific theme, ThemeForest will remain the home of WordPress at Envato. Having WordPress available on Envato Elements offers an alternative place for the community to buy and sell, with the subscription catering especially to those with a need for a high volume of assets for their creative projects.

The growth of Envato Elements shows how valuable an unlimited download subscription service is for creatives. It has been reinforced as the number one online destination for those seeking inspiration, help in delivering a project or simply for lovers of great design.

WordPress themes and plugins, along with 400,000 digital assets, are available now on Envato Elements for a launch price of USD$228 for 12 months.

Envato has been named winner for the Creative Industries category in the Governor of Victoria Export Awards.

Envato honoured in annual Governor of Victoria Export Awards

Envato has been named winner for the Creative Industries category in the Governor of Victoria Export Awards.

The award acknowledges outstanding international success across all creative industries including music and performing arts, film, television and radio, software and interactive content, writing, publishing and print media, architecture and design, and visual arts.

From websites, templates and graphics to app assets, fonts, stock video, stock audio and photos, Envato has had more than six million customers and forty million purchases since its establishment eleven years ago.

Announced at Monday’s export awards ceremony, Envato was presented with the award by the Governor of Victoria, the Honourable Linda Dessau AC.

Acting CEO Ben Chan said the company was thrilled but humbled to receive recognition for its work to support the creative sector. “We are strong believers in the approach that when our community succeeds, we succeed. Our creative community is the backbone of the company and we are always trying to make decisions with their best interests in mind.”

“So this award is not just an acknowledgement of the hard work of all our staff around the world, but is also an important recognition of the widespread success our authors and customers have had when using Envato services and products.”

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Envatohttp://envato.comtag:press.envato.com,2005:PressRelease/1583992017-08-30T09:58:04+10:002017-08-30T09:58:04+10:00Envato again named one of Australia's best places to work

Envato has placed 12th overall in an annual national survey that assesses and ranks the best places to work across Australia.

Envato again named one of Australia's best places to work

Envato has yet again been named as one of Australia’s best places to work after being ranked 12th in the annual 2017 Best Places to Work Study.

It is the third time the company has been recognised as one of the top 25 employers in the country by the Study, and the third time it is placed inside the top 20. A 12th place ranking improves on its 2016 performance by five spots (17th).

Founder and CEO of Envato Collis Ta’eed said the company was proud of being recognised in this way. “As a company, we are committed to ensuring that we have the right people and the right environment. This, and related values we hold dear - such as the right to a fair go and providing a diverse and inclusive workplace - have been central to Envato’s success not just as an employer, but as a business. I hope all of our staff feel as excited and proud as I am about this news, as it reflects positively on all of their hard work.”

Envato HR Manager Amber Johnson thanked the entire Envato team for helping to make the company a genuinely great place to work. “Being recognised as a great place to work is not just down to the policies and procedures we oversee as a HR team. It requires a truly positive and inclusive culture, and that doesn’t happen by accident or by the force of will of one person.”

“We’re incredibly proud of all of our staff who have each contributed to this result and, ultimately, making an Envato a place we all want to come in and work for each and every day.”

Based on one of the world’s most comprehensive studies of workplace culture by Great Place to Work Australia, the study authors announced that the quality of this year’s study was higher than ever. “This is an exciting, transformative and competitive time for companies,” said Zrinka Lovrencic, MD of Great Place to Work Australia. “With a services sector heavy economy, employers now need to make a greater effort to improve their workplace cultures in order to retain employees.”

“This competitive pressure benefits everyone, as all workplaces can increase their levels of employee engagement. The companies that have made the 2017 study have risen to this challenge and exemplify workplace culture excellence.”

The 2017 Best Places to Work will be published in a feature insert in Australian Financial Review and www.greatplacetowork.com.au on Wednesday 30th August, 2017.

ABOUT GREAT PLACE TO WORK Great Place to Work Australia, part of Great Place to Work Inc, is a global research and consulting firm specialising in workplace excellence and development of high-trust and high-engagement workplace cultures. Its proprietary research tool, the Trust Index® Employee Engagement Survey, is taken annually by over 10 million employees worldwide. Leading companies worldwide use our model to increase the levels of trust across their organisations and drive business results.

Envato Tuts+, one of the world's leading education ecosystems for digital creatives and web designers, has expanded its eBook library thanks to new partnerships with A Book Apart and Smashing Magazine.

The partnerships will see Tuts+ license the full eBook libraries of both publications for all Envato Elements and Tuts+ subscribers.

In adding the 55 current publications from Smashing and 26 from A Book Apart, the Envato Tuts+ eBook library will stand at nearly 250 items.

Of the A Book Apart publications added to the collection, topics range from responsive design and content strategy through to colour management, Javascript and HTML5. Meanwhile, Smashing Magazine’s collection covers all aspects of website design, from coding and graphics to UX and mobile.

Joel Bankhead, Tuts+ Courses and Content Manager, said the expansion of the Envato Tuts+ eBook library would ensure the platform remains at the forefront of providing high quality, hyper relevant reference material for those who work in online design fields.

“With these two partnerships in place, we have a fantastic collection of top quality design and web design eBooks available for designers to draw inspiration and learnings from,” he said.

“It builds on our existing popular content in the fields of design and web design and ensures we continue to strive for success in our mission to be the web’s most complete, community-driven creative ecosystem where, with any skill level, you can make beautiful and engaging creative content."

The CEO of A Book Apart, Katel LeDû said Tuts+ was a natural partner for the A Book Apart community. “We’ve been looking for ways to reach more people who are curious about working in tech, or who are just getting started in the industry, and in Tuts+ we have found a partner that shares in our mission to help people learn exactly what they need in order to get to work.”

“We know how dedicated Envato is to sharing high-quality resources with their community, and we are excited for the opportunity to take part in that.”

Ms LeDû said the new partnership was an exciting one that would provide benefits across the spectrum of the web design community. “A Book Apart started as a small project sprung from the foundation that sharing the insights and knowledge of passionate folks working in the field, presented through an engaging narrative, would make learning about working on the web accessible to everyone.

“We are beyond excited to share our books and our mission with a community as driven and curious as the one Tuts+ has cultivated. We hope we can help our passionate readers discover and explore what Envato has to offer, and to become members of an ever-growing community in the process,” she concluded.

Smashing Magazine’s CEO Markus Seyfferth said the new agreement will provide web designers of all stages of their career with access to the best learnings they can find. "A Book Apart's titles and Smashing Magazine’s book titles work perfectly together, and Envato Tuts+ is the ideal place to combine these eBooks.”

“This is an excellent example of what a collaboration of publishing houses spread all over the world can achieve, each with their own very active and international community. We all strive to make the web more accessible, performant, and a little bit better every day. We’re very happy to be a part of it!"

Now in its tenth year, Envato Tuts+ continues to be one of the web’s premier sites for teaching code, design and web design, with more than 24,000 free tutorials and 1,000 video courses on everything from mastering logo design, to building web apps in React. Publishing content from a diverse community of hundreds of instructors, the focus of Tuts+ remains on helping people make a living doing what they love.

Not content with just reaching the English speaking world, Tuts+ has also embarked on an ambitious community-driven translation project over the last three years and published more than 14,000 translations in 43 different languages.

More than six million customers have made more than forty million sales on Envato Market.

Envato passes customer and sales milestones

Envato, the world’s leading community for creative assets and creative people, has started the new financial year on a high after officially passing six million unique paying customers.

Envato previously passed the five million customer mark in September 2016.

Total sales across Envato’s seven unique marketplaces during the lifetime of the business also reached a new milestone of 40 million total sales, while Envato Studio - the company’s creative freelancer hire service - marked the completion of 120,000 successful jobs.

Founded in 2006, Envato’s creative community is on the cutting edge of digital asset creation, selling items as diverse as fonts and logo kits, graphic templates, WordPress themes and presentation templates through to stock video, stock audio, stock photos, Photoshop actions and After Effects animations.

Chief Commercial Officer Ben Chan said these latest milestones were a testament to the inspiration and hard work of the Envato creative community. “Our guiding principle from the start has been to establish a creative ecosystem of people making a living doing what they love, and we believe very strongly that when the community succeeds, we succeed.”

“While milestones like this can often feel arbitrary, they are also important markers for validating the path we have taken over the last 11 years to ensure our creative community has the support to bring their ideas to life. These results from Envato’s marketplaces are further proof of this.”

“Envato continues to grow, our community continues to grow and as a result, we’re finding new and expanded opportunities in the digital creative industry to offer support and value to both our customers and our authors.We’re thrilled with the community’s achievements to this point and are excited about the journey ahead,” concluded Chan.

More than 200,000 high quality, royalty free stock photos have been added to Envato Elements, further enhancing its status as one of the world's leading creative subscription services.

Envato launches pioneering approach to stock photography

Envato Elements has reinforced its position as one of the world’s leading subscription services for digital creative assets, and one of Australia’s largest stock photo providers, with the addition of photos to its catalogue this month.

The photos add to an existing collection of more than 26,000 creative assets on Envato Elements that includes graphics, templates, fonts and more.

Envato Co-Founder and CEO Collis Ta’eed said the package places Envato Elements as among the most competitive - and unique - subscription services for creative assets in the world. “In a rapidly expanding stock photo industry, we’re truly excited that we can now offer photos as part of an Envato Elements subscription, providing creative people with a unique and competitive alternative to other marketplaces.”

“We know that for people who use stock photos it is quality that matters most, and we have worked tirelessly to ensure that the photos our authors provide are not just diverse and useful for a wide variety of creative projects, but also truly beautiful.”

In expanding the available assets on Envato Elements to include photos, Collis noted that one of the motivations behind the move was to provide an attractive alternative to subscribers. “From insight we receive from our creative community, we noted that photos are one of the key elements in many creative projects, and that our subscribers were using our assets as a base but going elsewhere to source these central, hero images.

“Our challenge has been to provide a captivating and accessible alternative, while still remaining true to the broad-based offering that makes Envato Elements such a leading creative subscription service.

“Our promise is unlimited downloads with no hidden costs; monthly subscribers have unlimited download access to every single photo and asset in our current library, and we will be growing the size of library significantly in the months to come.”

Collis observed that Envato’s photo contributors range from large, professional stock photography organisations through to hobbyists and freelancers, a spread that will provide customers with a ‘best of all-worlds’ approach to photo curation.

“With the addition of photos on Envato Elements - alongside our recent inclusions of our Tuts+ tutorial and courses catalogue and access AND CO subscriptions - our commitment to providing a platform that gives customers everything they need to complete their creative projects has never been closer to realisation,” he concluded.

Currently, Envato Elements has more than 27,000 subscribers in more than 150 countries worldwide. According to a recent report, the still photography industry is predicted to grow at 7.76% a year until 2021.

Envato’s existing stock photo marketplace PhotoDune has updated its catalogue to coincide with the inclusion of photos on Envato Elements, and will continue to offer photos for download on a per-image basis.

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Envatohttp://envato.comtag:press.envato.com,2005:PressRelease/1551862017-06-13T09:30:00+10:002017-06-13T09:30:00+10:00Envato signs on to sponsor Code Like a Girl

Envato is the latest National Partner for Code Like a Girl, providing for regular workshops and mentor opportunities for Australian women in tech.

Envato signs on to sponsor Code Like A Girl

Envato has this month been confirmed as a National Partner for Code Like a Girl, the Melbourne-based social enterprise that inspires and supports Australian girls and women to achieve coding jobs, and leadership roles in the local tech sector.

The sponsorship comes as part of Envato’s Diversity and Inclusion Plan, which has established goals focussed on expanding the company’s commitment to promoting greater gender equality across the organisation.

The year-long sponsorship will involve a quarterly women’s leadership and development workshop, an ongoing series of presentations and will also see Envato staff connecting with the Code Like a Girl community for mentoring and mentee opportunities.

Abbie Burgess, Envato’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisor, hailed the sponsorship as an important step forward in expanding support for women developers in Victoria’s technology sector.

“At Envato, we take seriously our role as a leader in Australia's tech community. The need to provide better support for women coders who wish to work in the industry has been a priority for many organisations, and we're proud to play a role in helping to ensure such support can reach more people than ever before.”

“We’ve had an established relationship with Code Like a Girl for a number of years now, so to be in a position to expand our support of the fantastic work they do is a very pleasing moment for all of us at Envato.”

Code Like a Girl Co-Founder Vanessa Doake said the sponsorship will ensure that more local girls, and aspiring coders all, could have access to their expanded program offering. “Partnering with organisations like Envato that have a genuine commitment to achieving gender equality, particularly in technical fields, is critical for us to achieve our mission to ensure that all girls, regardless of background have the opportunity to develop coding and digital literacy skills and be ready for jobs of the future.”

Envato’s Diversity and Inclusion Plan outlines the company’s commitment to establishing expanded programs that provide greater support towards gender equality, LGBTI and mental health initiatives. One of these priority initiatives includes a Women’s Developer Apprentice program, launched earlier in May.